Tag-fastener



J. L. LEWIS.

TAG FASTENER.

APPLICATION nuzo was. i918.

Patented. Feb. 10, 1920.

illfllilliiL if M JESSE L. LEWIS, OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

TAG-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed August 9. 1918. Serial No. 249186.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jnssn L. Lnwrs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tag-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a new and unique fastening device by means of which price tags may be attached to goods. The fastening device is of a character to permit the tag to be attached in any one of three difierent ways, each way of at taching the tag having an object in View to hide or disclose the cost mark or selling price mark, or to attach the tag to the edge of the goods or to the center thereof.

To the exact construction in which it is shown and described, the invention is not to be restricted. The right is reserved to make such changes or alterations as the actual reduction to practice may suggest, in so far as such changes or alterations are compatible in spirit with the appending claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective vfiew of the improved fastener, a price tag with which it is used being shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation showing one manner of attaching the fastener and its attendant tag.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing still another way of attaching the fastener and the tag to a piece of goods.

Fig. & shows still another way of attaching the fastener and tag.

The invention is shown as consisting of a fastener formed from a single piece of preferably steel wire. This wire is first formed with an open hook 1 forming the terminus of a straight portion 2 at the end of which an eye 3 is formed by bending the wire back on itself and then extending it in the direction of the portion 2, thus forming a second straight portion a whose end is bent back on itself to form the hook portion 5.

The tag 6 is attached to the fastener at the time of the formation of the eye 3, this eye embracing the edge portion of the tag through a hole 7 formed therein near one edge. After the tag is attached to the eye 3, the tag is further secured to the fastener by having the hook portion 1 enter a hole 8 formed in the tag below the hole 7.

In Fig. 2 there is shown one method of attaching a tag to a piece of goods by the improved fastener. In effecting this attachment, the hook 5 is made to penetrate the goods indicated as 9 but this point of penetration is close to the edge of the goods. The tag is then bent over the edge of the goods and this bending requires the turning back on itself of the straight portion 2. Thus the tag is firmly held to the goods 9 at the edge and the tag 2 lying close to the free end of the hook portion 5 serves to guard that against releasing itself from the goods. Vith the tag attached in this way, any mark desired to be hidden may be placed on that side of the tag facing the goods and the mark to be exposed on the opposite side of the goods.

In Fig. 3 there is shown another method of attaching the tag but this method differs only from that shown in Fig. 2 in that the tag is bent in the vicinity of the hook portion 1.

In Fig. 4 there is shown still another method of attachment. In this plan the tag is not attached to the goods at the edge of the latter but at an intermediate point in the width of the goods. The hook portion 5 is made to engage the goods and the tag is then turned over until the said Portion 4t engages in the two holes made by the hook 5, the tag is then bent over as in Fig. 2, whereupon the tag remains fixedly securei to the goods.

The invention having been described, what is claimed to be new and useful is:

A new article of manufacture comprising the combination of a fastener and a tag, the fastener being formed of a single piece of wire bent to form an eye which embraces the tag at the edge of the latter through a hole formed therein, the fastener having a straight portion extending from the eye and terminating in a hook which engages the tag at an intermediate point, the fastener at the end remote from the first hook further having a second hook for engagement with a piece of goods in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

In testimony whereof I ailiX my signature.

JESSE L. LEWIS. 

